The Effect Of Solid Waste Reverse Logistics On The Livelihood Assets Of Collectors The Case Of Addis Ababa

The government authority to manage Addis Ababa’s Solid waste is Addis Ababa Solid WasternManagement Agency. This agency uses three solid waste collection systems. These systems arernresidential, commercial and street waste collections. The residential waste collection system is thernresponsibility of micro and small enterprises organized under associations in all Woredas of AddisrnAbaba. These collectors earn their living operating solid waste collection by performing practicesrnwhich fall in the realm of solid waste reverse logistics i.e. personal reuse, recycling, commercialrnreuse and organic valorization. There are about 6,400 individual collectors in Addis Ababa underrnthe residential solid waste collection system. These collectors are working in all the sub-cities ofrnAddis Ababa and the research study used a stratified sampling technique to identify a sample sizernof 376 respondents and study on the effect of solid waste reverse logistics on the livelihood assetsrnof collectors. The research used both primary and secondary data to describe how residential solidrnwaste collection is being practiced in Addis Ababa and infer which solid waste reverse logisticsrnpractice highly contribute on the livelihood assets of collectors.

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